The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread

[BurtReynolds]

newsworthy, or no big deal?

https://www.rferl.org/a/saudi-arabia-ba ... 28574.html

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE Cut Diplomatic Ties, All Contacts With Qatar, Citing 'Terrorism'

[LetMeSleep]

I work a minute away from Borough Market. Glad this wasn't a week day. Rough.

Or a weekday night. Spent many an evening around there. My flat is about ten mins away. Holy shit this is getting beyond...I don't know.

[McParadigm]

This is getting close

[BurtReynolds]

Turkey is team Qatar looks like.

Bombings in Iran.

This is going to get very interesting.

[BurtReynolds]

If an all out war between Sunnis and Shias breaks out, and we support the Sunnis, does that make us team ISIS?

[Bi_3]

Potential revenge attack in London...

[Green Habit]

Rant time.

I saw this on my phone so I can't easily post screenshots, but Yahoo made the purely idiotic decision on mobile to replace the ribbon of articles with a ribbon of comments from their head article, of which was just happened in London. Sure enough, all three of the comments loaded were all hateful anti-Islam comments assuming it was a Muslim who was behind the attack.

Instead, the attack was on a mosque.

[E.H. Ruddock]

WTF Europe?

What the hell is going on? A car bomb in Paris was just thwarted.

[Bi_3]

WTF Europe?

What the hell is going on? A car bomb in Paris was just thwarted.

SOSDD.

(warning, site often has NSFW content in the sidebars).
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3845043/brussels-explosion-central-station-suicide-bomber-suspect-shot/

[BurtReynolds]

WTF Europe?

What the hell is going on? A car bomb in Paris was just thwarted.

SOSDD.

(warning, site often has NSFW content in the sidebars).
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3845043/brussels-explosion-central-station-suicide-bomber-suspect-shot/

it seems the best defense against terrorists is their own incompetence.

[simple schoolboy]

WTF Europe?

What the hell is going on? A car bomb in Paris was just thwarted.

SOSDD.

(warning, site often has NSFW content in the sidebars).
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3845043/brussels-explosion-central-station-suicide-bomber-suspect-shot/

Is there anything in place to prevent a Timothy McVeigh level operation? How locked down are Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil in Europe?

[Bi_3]

Piss poor US and U.K. Foreign policy coming back to bite them.

Not picking on you Dime, but I stumbled on this on youtube earlier and you just happen to have the most recent relevant post.

[BurtReynolds]

Late night thoughts: The attempted Grand Mosque bombing was an inside job.

[Bi_3]

Now back to our standard programming:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4799836/People-hurt-van-crashes-pedestrians-Barcelona.html

[Biff Pocoroba]

At least 13 dead and 50+ injured in Barcelona as mentioned above, both numbers expected to rise.
I'm getting breaking news fatigue.

[Strat]

I'm getting breaking news fatigue.

Seriously.

Toll up to 13.

[Bi_3]

Ladies, gentleman, and 10cers.. I give you CNN:

"There will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia"

[run2death]

Yeah, that's just dumb.

This has been ISIS's preferred method for awhile.

[Strat]

Definitely a Wolf Blitzer comment.

[Anders]

Ladies, gentleman, and 10cers.. I give you CNN:

"There will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia"

Really stupid after Nice.